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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Fwd: WHERE ISRAEL DID GET WIPED OFF M]
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:30:02 -0600
From: Catherine Guildner <[log in to unmask]>
To:
Yes it is!
Kay
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: WHERE ISRAEL DID GET WIPED OFF M
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:43:18 +0000
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
To: mapsL <[log in to unmask]>
References: <[log in to unmask]>
Is Taiwan named on this made-in-china globe?
Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator
Map Section
National Library of Australia
Parkes
ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: WHERE ISRAEL DID GET WIPED OFF MAP
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:56:51 -0600
> From: Angie Cope
> Organization: American Geographical Society Library
> To: Maps-L
>
> Being the collectors of kitsch that we are, a staff person here at the
> AGSL actually has a copy of this globe. Israel is in fact on the map. If
> you look closely at the image included in the article - there is a
> number 2 circled where Israel should be.
>
> What this article demonstrates - is that people don't know how to read a
> map or globe. There is an index with about 16 places labeled - and
> indexed at number two is a place by the name of Israel.
>
> That's actually pretty nice for a $5 globe.
>
> Angie
> AGSL
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